Greta Van Susteren: The Obama Administration Is Trying To Punish Fox News
Posted by Mark on November 21, 2012 at 1:10 pm.

Poor Greta Van Susteren. Her Fox News program has lately been lagging in the ratings behind MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” And now she is feeling neglected by the Obama administration.

In a post on her Greatawire blog, Van Sustern has resorted to copious use of BRIGHT RED FONTS WITH ALL CAPITAL LETTERS to express her dismay at being left out of all the reindeer games. She laments that Fox News was overlooked by the State Department when media briefings were held for various news organizations. She whines that this is “playing dirty” and was being done “to punish Fox” for their critical reporting.
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Van Susteren: The Administration in what looks like a coordinated effort is denying Fox access to information that they are handing out to other news organizations. Why exclude Fox? That is simple – to punish — to try to teach us a lesson not to pry, not to look further for facts.

Van Susteren fails to disclose that the State Department had previously explained why Fox was not included in previous briefings and press releases. It had nothing to do with punishment. The State Department distributed their information to news organizations that had reporters who were assigned to cover the department. Fox News has no such reporters so they didn’t get on the list. In fact, Fox has a shoe-string news operation that doesn’t concentrate on actual reporting. Most of their “news” assets are allocated to anchors, analysts, and pundits, who are not doing any bona fide journalism. In short, the State Department had no one to notify and they weren’t going to send notices to everyone with a Fox News email address.

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Van Susteren: To the extent we get anything wrong is because the Administration is doing whatever it can to thwart us from getting the facts.

On the contrary, it would be more correct to say that to the extent you deliberately distort the facts, the administration is under no obligation to help you continue to get everything wrong. Van Susteren is, incredibly, blaming Fox’s mistakes on Obama. Nobody forced Fox to wade so far out into delusional speculation. In fact, based on their body of work, it appears to be their corporate mission. And the administration can hardly be criticized (or accused of punishment) if they should be reluctant to further that mission.

29. +1!!!!

37. Fox "nooz" went to the US Supreme Court when they were caught lying, and they

won a judgement that they are an "ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK", and that they are in the ENTERTAINMENT business. They do not have to tell the truth. They can't have it both ways. Are they news, and they get to lie, or are they entertainment, and they can say whatever they want to to mislead the repuke idiots.

43. Exactly. They are NOT a "news" organization.

They are a shameless Public Relations (i.e. propaganda) operation of the right wing and Republican Party. They do NOT merit any of the perquisites of a 'news' organization! No seat in the White House Press room, no office space in the White House, no press passes to government meetings, NOTHING!

They do NOT perform a "public service." They are worse than Pravda, which was always openly acknowledged as an official publication of the Soviet Communist Party.

7. LMAO! nt

8. It true

I support them 1000% No one with any intelligence or morality should ever be seen on this sham propoganda network; Fox should have to go dumpster diving for any tidbit of "news", because no one would speak to them, period, on or off the record. They are the reason this country is as divided as we are, and they stoke the fires every minute of every day. They are reprehensible.

12. "a lesson not to make lies up"

13. There are several stupid "Democratic consultants,pollsters" and "liberals" who

show up on Fox 'news' to help them push their "Fair and Balanced" crap. They should stay away and let Fox be seen for what they are: a cheap propaganda channel. Those people need the money and probably can't get a job anywhere else. It's foolish to think they will change anybody's mind.

16. "He never calls. I wait and wait, but he NEVER calls..."

17. Poor Faux News

but in the Adminsitation's defense, neither did The Weekend Update With Seth Myers, Nighly News Now with Jimmy Fallon, nor Jon Stewart's senior Washington reporter John Oliver. And Myers, Fallon, and Stewart are far closer to legitimate news departments than the bigoted, racist, teagbagger assclowns at Faux News.

39. Big difference Gretta between "critical" and purposely LYING!!

Fox LIES!

Purposely and outwardly to control, brainwash and keep slimy republicans uninformed to continue keeping them voting republican for corporate interest not their own while pushing fear though hate to their moronic viewers.

40. The State Department

statements are all true. Fox had no true reporters not even Morning Joe staff and pundits etc, etc. As stated they deliberately distort the facts all the time. So stop crying and start doing some real reporting.

50. Welcome to DU, titanicdave!

No kidding! How the alleged mighty have fallen. Lawrence O'Donnell is beating her now? Rachel and Lawrence make a good combo. I haven't looked at the numbers lately, but it does mean her lead-in is sustaining in his timeslot.

Glad you're here! You've come to the (well, I HATE to use the word "right" because that side of the aisle has totally perverted its meaning - they are ANYTHING BUT "right" about ANYTHING!!!) BEST place on the internet for us good guys! You will thoroughly enjoy and benefit from hanging out here. You'll learn TONS. And you'll be a very well-informed voter, capable of answering any misinformation offered by Pox Noise-schooled friends, family, and coworkers. Heck, you may even win over a few who may be growing more and more uncertain of the crap that's been force-fed to them for years by now. Certainly has helped me understand issues and players much better, hanging around here!

68. Jeez, take a look at the comments for that link

I think ignoring Faux and all these bagger pols and their fans is really the way to go at this point. Let's face it - they offer no solutions to anything and are just a bunch of crybabies who believe in a bizarre universe that looks completely different from the one everyone actually lives in.

If you're not going to offer anything constructive, then just get out of the way and let the people who want to make this a better country do so.

51. Key word is "News Organizations" Greta. fox is not a news organization, it is an arm of the

52. Fuck em.

Personally I think they should bring back the Fairness Doctrine and make Fox take the word news out of their propaganda. That network has done more damage to the American psyche than any terrorist attack ever could do.

54. Oh, STFU Xenubot...

55. No, no, no sweetie

The Obama administration is not punishing FOX news--the PEOPLE are punishing your channel by NOT watching your programs because they know you are full of crap and/or they are upset at you for lying to them. Simple as that.

56. I'd throw a Pity Party but I ran out of pity for Fox news. nt

57. We could only hope the Obama administration would exclude non journalist newsy actresses and actors

Bush made it his life's work to only interview with Foxsy types during 8 years.

The fact that State has a rational explanation only makes it better. I'd argue the Bush administration went 8 years without transparent rhyme or fact based reason for almost all of its actions. Fox bragged about it most times.

58. Greta, just being associated with Faux News is punishment by itself. Moving

59. Call the WAAAAAHmbulance!

"To the extent we get anything wrong" . . .?!? When do you propagandists get anything correct?!

There's a reason why Romney lost BIG time, and crushed the hopes and dreams of the uninformed and low-informed in this country for a fascist government . . . it's because of Fixed News' propensity to LIE in favor of the GOP.

71. Good!

72. Fake new and no journalists are now whining - LOL

Pathological liars, sociopaths, alternate reality, and beyond the realm of the Twilight Zone to even Planet Kolob would refuse the right wingers too crazy people. They can dish it out huh, but cry like babies when its thrown back at them.

75. If this is true I say thank god your finally giving them the cold shoulder. Thank you Mr President.

76. I really

didn't like the way, one of their journalist interviewed the President of the United States in a disrespectful way. The guy kept inter rupting and used a loud tone, which was disrespectful to the office. They need to address the President respectfully because of the level of his office. As far as Greta, she needs to take her own advice and grow up. She is pouting like a spoiled brat. Growup Greta, You cannot have everything you want!

86. You

do have a point. Greta and her pals missed the facts on WMDs, like she looked for the facts about every Republican. When was the last time your organization reported any facts about Republicans? That should answer your question about your news organization.

78. If only it was true Greta.

If Fox Tampa really wanted to get you, they could join the Tampa Bay Times in exposing the way your Church, the Scientologists, have been taking over Tampa, even taking Charter school money to teach your religion!

79. Greta, you've got that

backward. FUX News has been punishing President Obama since before he became president. FUX continually mischaracterizes--who am I kidding-- continually lies about the president. From day 1 this "news" agency has been punishing him and trying to delegitimize his presidency.

85. The presstitute

Van Susteren works for an organization that spends a majority of its time doing propaganda designed to degrade the President and his Party, and she wants the President and his Party to kiss her and her network's asses. She is obviously a mental defective like the rest of the air staff and management.

89. They're stuck in The Spin Cycle Twilight Zone

90. Punish Fox News

Bill O'Reilly's interview with President Obama was a disgrace. As stated in comment posted here he was disrespectful, & interrupted the President when he talked. Billo literally sneered at the President & actually stated how much President Obama was hated. President Obama was such a class act & his cool, deliberate behavior exposed the lack of professional integrity of O'Reilly.

101. That alone should tell people all they want to know.

97. The News Corpse people should be glad I'm not President...

....their access to any government buildings under the control of the executive branch would end within an hour of my taking office. The Secret Service would have orders not to let a Fox News report within 25 feet of me.

98. Ah, if only it were true. Hercules couldn't clean up that mountain of bullshit.

100. Re-Greta can shove it where the sun doesn't shine.....

No one will ever accuse Re-Greta of being cursed with self-awareness. Why should Fux Noise ever dispatch a reporter anywhere when they're not even remotely interested in reporting facts? Fux Noise watchers live in a fantasy world concocted by Ailes and his team of propagandists. Listening to credible sources will only conflict with what "some people" are saying in the Fux Noise creative writing department. You're a joke Greta, and you always have been.

103. On a side note: Who ever heard a "news organization" engaging

in a decades long attack on other news organizations? Faux News has controlled the narrative toward this silliness of feuding news organizations by a constant drum beat of "the liberal media, the liberal media, the liberal media." Every is news story is scrutinized and held under suspicion by virtue of being reported by the "liberal media." You hear Republican guests on Faux News eliciting the "liberal media" attack over and over again and again. The "liberal media" can't be trusted and where do these same Republicans go when they have to plug their next book? The "liberal media." They need to be called out on this hypocrisy.

105. OMFG...

Fox News? You mean the outfit that was founded to destroy Bill Clinton, spent every second between the time President Obama formed his exploratory committee and the exact moment you are reading this (even if that moment is 8:45 am January 20, 2017 and you stumbled across this in the archives) trying to destroy him, his wife and everyone who supports him, and calls every GOP official who gets caught dorking some woman-not-his-wife a Democrat? The best way to punish Fox is to pull their license for misrepresentation....whatever Fox is selling, it ain't news.

115. No, Greta, FOX viewers are trying to punish FOX.

116. Her schoolgirl crush on Palin was hardly a paragon of journalistic excellence

Didn't she used to be an actual journalist at one point in her life? The extent to which she has imbibed FOX's kool-aid staggers the mind -- she's just gone somewhere else besides the reality based world.

119. Did you know we had 4 people die

120. # 1 problem

The actions of Fox and the various radio entities I see as the main problem to be faced by our country. We try facing other problems such as voting, poverty, and wars. But ALL things are effected by these lying media personalities. Something like trying to remove weeds without paying any attention to the roots. This situation will worsen until a change is made regarding our common airwaves. I sure hope for a change soon.

134. That's Sad

She seemed smart when she first got in the public eye but Faux News can apparently warp the minds of some, kind of like the Stockholm syndrome.

For her to whine that they'd get it right if this or that came to be is ridiculous, most of us have seen the leaked memos from the top there, which details where they want their hosts to steer the talk daily.

We've also seen the screen shots of people like David Vitter, when he had his scandal. On the byline below they put a (D) beside his name rather than the correct "R". It's a trick they use that can fool low info folks, which is a large part of their audience.

I'm at times not sure how Shep Smith keeps his job at Faux but for the most part this "news" op is deliberate propaganda pushing an alternate reality....which historically has often turned out horribly for the masses.